Modern Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
“Still Life with Fruit”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas still life painting of fruit in a wicker basket by Nicolai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. Condition is very good. Circa 1945. The painting is housed in a contemporary gold leaf gallery frame. Overall measurements are 24.25 by 28.25 inches. Provenance: A Southampton, New York estate.
The well known and highly regarded landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky was born in Russia in 1894. He studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Valley by the river" by Giuseppe Bosio - Oil on wood
By Giuseppe Bosio
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Gilded wood frame
42 x 57 x 3 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
36% Off
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Competition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, December, 1950 (see The Best Amateurs, Art News, volume 49, issue 8, December 6 to 20, 1950, p. 65 – 66), presented in a period frame
Fausto Sansone...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Trip to the Lake - Oil Paint by Pauline Minartz - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trip to the lake is a modern artwork realized by French painter Pauline Minartz.
Mixed colored oil painting on paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
untitled #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Enrique Kico Govantes (Cuban, born 1957)
Title: Untitled
Year: Circa 1985
Medium: Oil on pressed board panel
Panel size: 23.5 x 9.5 inches
Signature: Signed on t...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dreamy Vintage Watercolor of Two Figures by Artist Gertrude Klares Bedell
Located in Chicago, IL
A dreamy watercolor of two figures in repose Gertrude Klares Bedell. Artwork size: 18" x 13 1/2". Framed size: 26 1/2" x 22".
Biography from Askart: An Austrian countess born i...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lavender Fields Provence Original French Modernist Contemporary Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France and went onto study at the Ecole Beaux-arts in Paris. She exhibited widely throughout France, her love of colour and capturing life in all its fun and colour comes through in her canvases.
Title: Lavender Fields in Provence...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Cleaners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Street Cleaners, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 28 ¾ x 42 inches, Gallery Z...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled, Two Personages
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Enrique Kico Govantes (Cuban, born 1957)
Title: Untitled, Two Personages
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on hardboard panel
Panel size: 24 x 47.75 inches
Signature: Signed and dated 11/21/89 on the back by the artist
Condition: Very good
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Enrique (Kico) Govantes was born in Havana, Cuba in 1957 surrounded by art. His grandfather was the Minister of Public Works, his father an architect. Paul Smart wrote in his article on Govantes, “Ace of Cups,” (Ulster Publishing. April 28, 2005) that although they did not support the Batista regime, the Govantes were exiled from Castro’s Cuba with only the art they could carry in their suitcases. He has presented solo shows at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy; Nicole Fiacco/MODO Gallery in Hudson; Hunter’s Point...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Painting Blue
Red Posed Figure Seated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Seated Figures
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and sc...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
20th Century French Modernist Painting Purple Eucalyptus Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior with Flowers
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
White - Acrylic Painting by Mario Padovan - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
White is an contemporary artwork realized by Mario Padovan in 1976.
Mixed colored acrylic painting on canvas.
Signature, title, date and technique on the back.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$1,729 Sale Price
20% Off
Dreaming of the Dawn - Photograph By Giuseppe Marani - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Dreaming of the dawn is one of the best photo on canvas realized by Giuseppe Marani in 2010.
Always passionate about landscapes and photography, the artist then devoted himself to l...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Lighthouse
Located in Sheffield, MA
Yolande Ardissone
French, b. 1927
The Lighthouse
Oil on canvas
19 ¼ by 25 ⅛ in, w/ frame 28 ⅛ by 34 in
Signed lower right
Yolande Ardissone was born in Normandy in 1927, of an Ital...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
ballerina pointe shoes
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this delicate composition, the ethereal elegance of ballet is conveyed through the image of pointe shoes against a soft pink background. Pointe shoes, symbols of grace and dedica...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Plant in a Pot - Mid 20th Century French Modernist Cubist Still Life Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful, large modernist cubist influence oil on canvas still life with potted plant by French artist Jef Friboulet. Striking and excellent quality work, presented in a box frame...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Gouache Painting Of Red Tulips In A Yellow Watering Can
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figures on River French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Fishing Vacation
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vacances
Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front
inscribed verso
oil painting on canvas
24 x 29 inches.
All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fresh Air (Abstract, Geometric, Minimal, Nature, ~37% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca
Fresh Air
Acrylic on Wood
2019
12 x 10 inches
Signed on verso, lower right
COA provided
#abstract #geometric # minimal #acrylic # nature #painting #wood
Aster da...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
$444 Sale Price
36% Off
"Untitled, " 1950s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
Thisoil painting on masonite board, "Untitled," by Modernist Stanley Bate was created circa 1950, part of his earlier body of work. The dark, heavy line work combined with bright col...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman reading
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
46.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,153
"Blue Woman by the Window" Style of Modigliani Figure Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Chiaroscuro Landscape, Oil on Canvas Painting by Francois Gentilini
Located in Atlanta, GA
This captivating small-scale oil on canvas was created by renowned French Modernist painter François Gentilini (b. 1930). Structured with geometric precision, the composition evokes ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Exodus, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
"Exodus" is a Modern abstract painting by Stanley Bate. Bate, who was greatly inspired by his peer, Mark Rothko and the Abstract Expressionist movement in general, creates an energet...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City Streets (British Street scene architectural landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rene Beckley. City Streets, 1965. Oil on artist board, 16 x 20 inches; 18 x 22 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$680 Sale Price
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Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Modern British oil on canvas of Tower of London, by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925–2007)
Tower of London
Oil on paper
Signed ‘B. Myers’ (lower left)
24 x 31.75 in. (61 x 80.7 cm), including frame
Provenance: From the estate of the artis...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
VERY LARGE SIGNED OIL PORTRAIT OF LADY IN VINTAGE COAT
HAT - DATED - FRAMED
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: J. Mackellar, signed and dated 2005.
Title: Portrait of a Lady wearing vintage clothing and hat.
Medium: oil painting on bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geneva countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Wooden frame
74 x 61.5 x 4 cm
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Collage Painting Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman an...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The tunnel by I. Ch. Goetz - Oil on canvas 60x49 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Tropical Modernist Palm Tree Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist tropical landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 28 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition....
Category
1910s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Large Bouquet" Modern Abstract Red, Blue,
Gray Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired still life painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features an abstracted red, blue, and gray toned floral still life in a vase on ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Coffee
"Two Pueblo Dancers, Santa Clara" Pablita Velarde, New Mexico Native American
Located in New York, NY
Pablita Velarde
Two Pueblo Dancers, Santa Clara, 1993
Signed and dated lower right
Casein on paper
7 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
Provenance
Adobe Gallery, New Mexico
Private Collection, Texa...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Contemporary British Acrylic Painting 2 Owls on old Wooden Fence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
2 Owls
by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist
signed
acrylic on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK
The paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Gouache Purple Posed Nude Figure Lying Down
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Year of the Dragon, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract painting Stanley Bate features an earthy and warm palette and textured paint application. The painting is signed by artist lower right and is framed in the origi...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Silver
French Modernist Painting Of Pink And Purple Tulips In Clear Glass Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Piazza del Popolo, Rome - Oil on Cardboard - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza del Popolo, Rome is an original painting realized in the half of XX century by Alessandro Battaglia.
Mixed colored oil painting on cardboard.
Hand signed on the lower right...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
41st
10th: Abstract WPA Style Cityscape, New York City Rooftops
Water Tower
Located in Hudson, NY
Cityscape painting on muslin of iconic New York City water towers against an abstract maroon, silver, and blue rooftop skyline
"41st & 10th" by Hudson, NY based artist, Ricardo Muler...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gesso, Wood Panel
1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Mermaid Figure On The Rocks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour with biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 10 x 8.5 inches
condition: very good and read...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Mazarrón, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
In this Modern abstract painting by Stanley Bate, a bold palette is married with imperfect shapes and large brush strokes. Sandy beige rectangles blend with yellow and deep blue, on ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Dotty Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 10.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provena...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Galos
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Beautiful original painting of two colorful roosters beautifully detailed by Brazilian Modern master Chico Da Silva, who won an Honorable Mention in the...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Gouache
$6,500
Mid Century Modern Swedish Original Oil Painting - Still Life with Green Bottles
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE WITH GREEN BOTTLES
Size: 49.5 x 58.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A charming modernist still life painting that captures a domestic tabletop scene with pared-down e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Colourful French Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
Mounted on card frame
size: 13.75 x 15 inches
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Joseph Wolins WPA Artist Dancing, Torah Modernist Judaica Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Wolins 1915-1999
Subject: Jewish, Dancing with the Torah (New Torah, Simchat Torah)
Hand signed oil painting
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary co...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charming 1950s Painting "Oak Bluffs, Mass." Martha
s Vineyard by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming vintage 1950s painting of Martha's Vineyard, "Oak Bluffs, Mass." by notable Chicago artist Francis Chapin. A bustling view of the picturesque lighthouse and Soldiers Mem...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Vibrant 1940
s Summer Landscape Painting, River in Vermont by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant, MidCentury Modern 1940s summer landscape painting of a Vermont river by notable Chicago artist, Harold Haydon. A picturesque, quiet scene painted near the artist's longti...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Moses saved at waters edge
By Jean Jansem
Located in New York, NY
"Moise Sauve des eaux" was created in 1999 and was exhibited in his solo exhibition in 2000 at Galerie Matignon, Paris France.
The painting is titled on the reverse on the stretche...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the vineyards
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Dimensions with frame43.5 x 36 x 3 cm
This captivating work presents a serene rural landscape, marked by a rustic house topped by a discreet red roof. Two imposing...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist flower still life oil painting by Samuel Brecher (1897 - 1982). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 30 inches overall and 22 by 24 inches painti...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Post Impressionist Modern Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait painting. Housed in a period frame. Measuring 29 by 33 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Soft French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 15.5 x 21 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoye...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century Antica Roma Figurative Abstract Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century mixed media collage of Roman travel items and photos by James A. Couglin, a Berkeley Abstract Expressionist (American, 1929-1979), c.1966. Painted during his Par...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Magazine Paper
$1,580 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape by M. Terraz - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach
Located in Portland, OR
An important Irish Modernist oil on canvas painting by Henry Robertson Craig (1816-1984), titled "Young Bathers", circa 1960.
This very beautiful painting of children seated on the...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Green Eyed Girl Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Green Eye Girl
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper, mounted on card
size: 16 x 13 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Morat, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate combines deep, textured red with creme and dark blue and grey. Geometric shapes throughout the painting are softened by the en...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s French Modernist Signed Oil Figures in Sunny Street
Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed
Title: The Sunlit Street.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
Provenance: privat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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